The Light of Other Days Sketches of the Past And Other Selections From the Wr
The Light of Other Days Sketches of the Past And Other Selections From the Wr
Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick
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57 was still full, clear, and melodious. She seemed pleased to see me, and readily assented to the plan of my assisting her mother in nursing her, although she refused to have any other friend near. The night of ruy arrival I took my station, which I never quitted till her mortal conflict terminated. How solemn was the scene to me I Four days since an aged relative had paid the debt of nature in this house, and the apartment she had occupied was vacant and cold. There is something in a recent d...eath which sheds a solemnity throughout a dwelling, even if the mind be divested of superstition or fear. I felt this, and it added to the gloom that reigned in the chamber of sickness when all was composed in the silence of night. The dim light of the lamp served to give form to objects, and ena- bled me to distinguish the features of my charge, fixed as if in death. The moan and cough alone broke the oppressive stillness. From the nature of the complaint a sudden termination was appre- hended, and my fears were constantly alive, lest some fatal change should take place when I was alone with her.
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